8 Book Reviews submitted by our Members...sorted by voted most helpful

I Patrick O'Brians books and think I've read all of them. Because of that I was very excited to get a tape that I could listen to in the car and I did enjoy it. However the abridgement was too much in my mind and I had trouble following the plot on the tape. Fun but not what I expect from O'Brian

While the first 4 books in "the Cannon" are written as squeals to one another, each book's story resolving by its respective end, Desolation Island is the first of what is considered a trilogy inside the wider series (Desolation Island, the Fortune of War and the Surgeon Mate).

I liked this nautical adventure featuring Captain Jack Aubrey and Dr. Stephen Maturin. There were lots of edge-of-the seat moments as the Leopard had to flee the Dutch ship and later find a place to land for repairs. I look forward to reading the next book in the series, The Fortune of War.